Tore Kristiansen & Stefan Grondelaers (eds.): Language (De)standardisation in Late Modern Europe: Experimental studies.

Sammendrag

Language (de)standardization in late modern Europe is a massive volume. It addresses experimental methods in researching changes in language ideologies, more precisely the on-going changes in regards of and attitudes towards national conventional standard language varieties. The volume consists of an extensive introduction and two larger parts with separate chapters. In the introduction, the editors Stefan Grondelaers and Tore Kristiansen present the joined frame and the main results of the eight separate empirical studies which form the first part of the volume. The first part includes experimental empirical studies on language attitudes towards varieties of Bosnian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, German, Irish, Lithuanian, Norwegian and Serbian in the contexts of Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Belgium and Republica Srspka. The second part addresses theoretic-methodological questions of designing experimental studies and also adds cases of English in North America, German in Austrian and Icelandic in Iceland contexts to the empirical findings. Since the contexts are multilingual, the cases cover indirectly also languages not specifically focused on or mentioned here.